One of the things I love most about Stampin' Up's inks is that it is water reactive. Did you know you can ink blend a background, splatter it with water, then lift the water off to create a great splatter effect?
To create my card, I cut a square from the largest Stylish Shapes die on white card stock. I embossed the flower from the stamp set, You Are Remarkable, in white embossing powder. Then I used the embossed resist technique to ink blend Strawberry Slush, Pecan Pie, Lemon Lime Twist and Balmy Blue inks over the image to make the white embossing pop!
I also cut a Crumb Cake square in the same size and ran it through the Stamp, Cut and Emboss machine using the Forever Plain embossing folder.
I gently splattered some water over the ink blending, then used a paper towel to blot up the excess to create the pretty splatter design.
I embossed a partial sentiment from the same set in white embossing powder on Strawberry Slush card stock. To do a partial image, simply use a low tack tape to cover the part of the image on your stamp you want to omit. Ink the stamp, remove the tape, then stamp your image.
I mounted a piece of Strawberry Slush DSP onto an A2 Basic White card base, then layered the other pieces as shown. I used the Stylish Frames die to cut my sentiment out and adhered it with Stampin' Dimensionals.
To finish it off, I added three adhesive pearls.
The splatter technique is easy, inexpensive and creates a beautiful background. Give it a try!
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